Why letting steal your beautiful software?
I have had also such an experience a few years ago. After that I
changed my license engine and emailed my customers a new very-long-
license-string.
When I see a crack of my work, I will change again, despite many
hours of work!
When I look into my own heart I must honnest say: when I find a crack
or a "free" serial, I'm not running to pay for it.
Best regards,
Jaap Cammeraat
isticky: jpc
http://www.isticky.net
http://www.insist.nl
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Op 15-sep-2006, om 10:45 heeft Trausti Thor Johannsson het volgende
geschreven:
Hello,
I make a genealogy application, and I was just googling around for
it, and seeing if any blogs where actually talking about it. I
have spent a lot of time on this app, and of course money and such
(just like all of you). I just found a crack for my app that
removes the 30 day limit.
Now I know that one can do a lot to copy protect the app, I choose
one way to do it, so my copy protection scheme is not to difficult
to crack, I want to spend my time on making sure that my app is the
fastest genealogy app out there, not spend my time on making the
copy protection more complicated than my app it self.
So you people with the experience, do people go around searching
for hacks and cracks and then use the app, or is this a sub set of
people that would never buy the app anyway.
This hack is windows only as far as I can find out. And that is
what troubles me, after I released my application in many
languages, I revived the windows build of it. And I am getting
almost 50% downloads of Windows vs Mac OS X 50%, and these are
thousands of downloads. It is quite close call. But I have not a
single sale for windows, not one sale. All the sales I am getting
are Mac OS X (as far as I know).
What do you people do when you find your app on a sleazy site ? Do
you re-write the copy protection, only to have it cracked again a
few days later ? Or isn't this just a very clear sign of stop
developing the Windows application ?
And if you rewrite the copy protection, doesn't that mean sending
out new serial numbers to all your users, and having extra support
for weeks ? or should I just continue what I do and just look at
this like a free advertisement ?
Best regards,
Trausti Thor
Studlar Software
http://www.studlar.net
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